GIrl Scout’s Sweet Success

Girl Scout Sells 1,252 Boxes Of Cookies

HAYSI, Va. – To sell 1,000 boxes of anything, you’re probably going to have to get at least a little bit obsessed.
Certainly determined.
And mighty dedicated.
Credit all that to Jessica Yates, an 11-year-old girl from Haysi, Va.
This Dickenson County resident, who attends Sand Lick Elementary School in Birchleaf, racked up sales of 1,252 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.
“I guess the secret was, in the little town of Haysi, we have repeat customers,” said Jan Yates, Jessica’s mother. “And she had some help.”
One of the girl’s aunts works at a hospital in Norton, Va., and helped sell cookies.
What was the most popular cookie?
“It’s the chocolate and the coconut,” Jan Yates said.
The second-most po-pular: peanut butter patties.
Each box sold for $3.50. Out of that, the local Girl Scout troop, No. 348 in Haysi, earns 55 cents a box.
Girl Scouts also get to earn rewards for being top sellers, like a free trip to the Girl Scout camp in Bluff City, Tenn. – a $195 value, Jan Yates said.
Often, Jessica set up a booth at local ball games to sell cookies.
“Sometimes, it’s fun,” Jessica said. “But, it’s sometimes hard, too, because some people don’t buy them. Some of them have diabetes or something, and they can’t eat them.”
This year, more than 3,600 girls from a 15-county region sold cookies across Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, said Sarah Robinson, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of the Appalachian Council, Inc.
Down in Johnson City, Tenn., 8-year-old Krystal Phillips, a pupil at Jonesborough Elementary School, took the top honors for selling more than any other girl scout in Northeast Tennessee, Robinson said.
Krystal’s total: 1,385 boxes.
Lynn Phillips, Krystal’s mother, attributes her 8-year-old daughter’s success to her “outgoing personality. She’s very outgoing and determined to meet her goals.”

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